Arshid Hussain voldtok britiske fosterbarn i 13 år uten at politiet reagerte. Foto: SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE

Det dukker stadig opp rystende historier i den pågående og langvarige «grooming»-skandalen i Storbritannia. En 12 år gammel jente ble utsatt for serievoldtekt av pakistanske menn. Politiet beskyldte offeret for å prostituere seg.

Det er lokalavisen Birmingham Live som har historien.

An alleged new victim of a Walsall grooming gang claims police failed her – and told her mum she was prostituting herself.

Karen, whose name we have changed to protect her identity, told how she was first raped aged just 12 by a man after being lured to a Birchills flat under false pretences.

But she claims after police accused her of lying about the 2010 attack she fell into the clutches of another local abuser who passed her between his friends.

A police report in 2012 confirmed a grooming gang was operating in an area of Walsall with a large Pakistani population.

Den 12 år gamle jenta ble utsatt for gjentatte voldtekter, både i bakgater og på hotellrom. Da politiet anklaget offeret for å prostituere seg, brøt den unge jenta helt sammen.

Karen said: «I was 12 or 13 when I went with my mum to the police to report the first rape. But a female police officer accused me of lying and that just broke me. I went off the rails after that.»

Her mum said: «She was always going missing after that, we’d have to pick her up at the police station after she was found by them, sometimes at hotels. The police asked me if I knew what was happening and I said if I did I’d have an idea how to deal with it, I had no idea.

Politi, sosialtjeneste og politikere kjente til de grove overgrepene mot unge, sårbare britiske jenter. Men siden gjerningsmennene i hovedsak var pakistanske muslimer ville ingen ta tak i problemet. Frykten for å bli kalt rasist var for stor. Som Breitbart rapporterte i november var det enkelte som bedrev overgrep i 13 år, som det lokale politiet kjente til, uten at de foretok seg noe for å stanse overgrepene.

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